You can now find out if you will live to be 100: here are 4 things to check

Through a study published in the journal GeroScienceKarin Modig, associate professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine of the Karolinska Institutet, and his colleagues show that it is possible to predict early in the aging process who is most likely to age. The study is based on about 44,000 Swedes who underwent health checks between 1985 and 1996, from the ages of 64 to 99. Of these, 1,224 lived to be 100.

Getting very old is not a matter of chance; it seems to be linked to lifestyle

For the study, the researchers looked at biomarkers associated with aging and disease. The researchers found that centenarians were healthier than their sexagenarian peers.

Of the twelve biomarkers examined, ten of them could be linked to increased chances of reaching 100 years old. “The results suggest that becoming very old is not just a matter of chance; it also appears to be related to lifestyle.”explains Professor Karin Modig.

Today we can say that a person who sleeps well, does not smoke and has a balanced diet, rich in nutrients, has a better chance of being spared from diseases and therefore of living a long time, compared to a person with a poor lifestyle.

The importance of 4 biomarkers

According to the Swedish study, four biomarkers were found to be particularly important and reliable in determining whether a person is likely to become a centenarian (or not). These include:

Creatinine levels, a key indicator of kidney function, were almost always normal at age 60 in people who lived to age 100.

The same goes for liver markers and uric acid levels, a marker of inflammatory processes.

People with the lowest levels of uric acid (a waste product produced by the body) had a 4% chance of living to age 100, while those with the highest levels had a 1.5% chance.

. Finally, blood sugar levels were also rarely higher than 6.5 mmol/liter in centenarians.

“At the same time, life is not about living according to an algorithm; everyone has to find a balance between risk factors and health factors”the professor emphasizes.

Sources : GeroScience